XXX11. SECOND SUMMER MEETING. 



luncheon and a short rest, Mr. Pope called upon the 

 REV. H. SHAEX SOLLY to read a paper on Eggardon Hill. 

 (This will be found printed on pages 31 to 35 of this Volume). 



MR. C. S. PRIDEAUX stated that he had spent two months 

 on Eggardon Hill under canvas with the intention of opening 

 several of the hut circles. A large trench stone at the bottom 

 of one of them proved to be a broken quern, which it was 

 discovered afterwards had come from a place near Exeter. 

 Some of the burial places he had found excavated. The skulls 

 of the interred were neither long-headed nor round-headed. 

 The skeletons were lying upon their backs with their heads 

 towards the east and their feet towards the west. Nothing 

 was buried with them which would have helped to identify 

 them. He drew the attention of the members to a fine ring 

 barrow a short distance away. 



MR. A. POPE, in proposing a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. 

 Solly for his paper, said that he would have liked some 

 comparison to have been drawn between Eggardon and 

 Maiden Castle. To his mind Eggardon was considerably the 

 older, and justified the saying common in that neighbourhood 

 " as wold as Haggardon." 



Upon descending the hill 



KING JOHN'S CASTLE* 



was next visited. The REV. R. W. H. DALLISON, a former 

 Vicar of Powerstock, thought that King John's object in 

 building a Castle in such an out-of-the-way place was that he 

 might levy tolls upon the merchants who travelled by that 

 route from Bridport to Dorchester. They had only to scrape 

 the earth of the grassy mounds on which they were sitting to 

 find the masonry of the foundations. The whole of the castle 

 was demolished and the stone worked into the houses of 

 Powerstock, while inferior stone appeared to have been 

 burnt in a kiln near by. 



D.F.C. Proceedings, Vol. XX, p. 138. 



